The URAC Report

A commitment to patient safety and pride in its physician network inspired Catalyst Health Network (Catalyst) to devote time and resources to achieving URAC Clinical Integration Accreditation in December. It wasn’t always an easy journey, but there was never any doubt it was worth it, said Christopher Crow, MD, president, Catalyst.

Click the link to view an interactive infographic on How Four Healthcare Organizations Became Clinically Integrated Networks.  Explore the strategies used to achieve success and how accreditation helped these organizations build and improve their CIN framework.

This 72-second animated video explains how URAC’s Clinical Integration Accreditation program helps networks ensure they are in compliance with antitrust laws, demonstrates to health plans that they’re on track to achieve quality goals, and shows regulators that policies and procedures meet national standards.

The benefits of URAC Clinical Integration accreditation are crystal clear to Ginger Hines, the new senior director of operations at the Seattle Children’s Care Network (SCCN).

Achieving URAC’s Clinical Integration Accreditation has resulted in many unexpected efficiencies and improvements for St. Vincent’s Health Partners (SVHP). But not just clinically.

While CINs enable health systems and providers to deliver value-based care, they come with many clinical and operational challenges, including in those related to technology, governance, organizational alignment and care coordination. And there are very real compliance threats. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice and state regulators closely scrutinize the structures of these networks to safeguard against antitrust violations.

Discover how five different healthcare organizations navigated the complexities of becoming clinically integrated networks (CINs) to achieve success in the new value-based healthcare economy, in our Industry Insight Report “Clinically Integrated Networks: A Framework for Clinical and Financial Success.”

How do you make your best even better? Regardless of the industry or the organization, answering this question is a driving force behind any leadership team’s efforts to continually fulfill its mission, vision and goals.